This event should have marked the end the phonograph
campaign and the beginning the ore milling venture, but
Edison made the ore milling syndicate wait while continued
.
This first prototype the "perfected" phonograph went
to England with Gouraud immediately after the photograph was
taken. (Illus
4-1) Yet the right composition the wax cylinder, well as
the best arrangement reproducer and recorder, still eluded
the experimenters West Orange.IV-12
PERFECTING THE PHONOGRAPH
In the summer 1888 now famous photograph Edison
appeared the press showing the exhausted inventor (in a
somewhat Napoleonic pose) with the new phonograph. The design
owed lot the telegraph equipment Edison had once
manufactured— its precise electro-mechanical works were mounted
on metal casting that served base plate, easy access
and adjust.(Illus. Its design shows that Edison had considered the
commercial aspects the phonograph for now came a
compact form and was fully enclosed wooden box. The mechanism was more sturdy, and the motor and
governor had been redesigned provide constant speed. 3-1,
#6164, Chapter Three) This device was the result the first
experimental campaign the West Orange laboratory. Although
introduced the "perfected phonograph," the machine was far
from perfect
